In the Tang Dynasty, China's national strength was unprecedented, but the richest court was the Northern Song Dynasty. According to relevant data, the financial revenue of Song Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty was about 654.38+600 million copper coins, which was about three times that of the Tang Dynasty. By the Qing Dynasty, the fiscal revenue even reached 85 million taels of silver. Such data is relatively rare in the whole history. However, after Emperor Qianlong, a pair of emperors in the Qing Dynasty were inferior to each other, and finally they abdicated because of the complete collapse of the Revolution of 1911. So how much money is left in the national treasury after the demise of the Qing Dynasty? After the northern warlords ran to the capital to open the city gate, the smiles on the people's faces completely solidified. At that time, the national treasury only had 10 silver, which was pitifully small.
At that time, many people thought that members of the Qing royal family might have moved ahead of time, because although the Qing dynasty declined in its later years, there were still many funds. For example, when Empress Dowager Cixi came to power, she tossed the whole capital for her 60th birthday, and when she died, she built an extremely luxurious mausoleum, which cost millions.
In short, the Qing government was indeed extravagant. They must have hidden a lot of money, but it has never been publicly taken out. In the book My First Half Life, Emperor Puyi pointed out that his relatives had been reluctant to give up the restoration and always secretly took out some jewels to support the military generals who were willing to help them with the restoration activities. However, these people's actions are doomed to draw water with a sieve. At that time, China had undergone ideological transformation, and everyone had no hope for the feudal dynasty. Few people are willing to support the restoration of feudal emperors. Emperor Puyi has been tossing for so many years, but this wish has not been realized.